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By Ashley R. Williams, Jack Forrest, Jillian Sykes and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” and “picking cotton” reminiscent of the country’s painful and bigoted past – have been received by children, college students and working professionals from

By Ashley R. Williams and Nicolas Miranda, CNN (CNN) — Approximately 100 vehicles were stranded after a semi-truck jackknifed on a rural New Mexico highway as a potent winter storm blasted northern parts of the state and Colorado Thursday, authorities said. More than 5.8 million people across Colorado and New Mexico were under winter storm

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Personal Birth date: November 17, 1942 Birth place: New York, New York Birth name: Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese Father: Charles Scorsese, worked in the garment industry Mother: Catherine (Cappa) Scorsese Marriages: Helen Morris (1999-present); Barbara De Fina (1985-1991, divorced);

By Zoe Sottile and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — A jury began deliberations Thursday in the trial of Richard Allen, who is accused of killing two teenage girls and leaving their bodies near a hiking path in Delphi, Indiana, in 2017. Allen is facing two murder and two felony murder charges and has pleaded not

By Graham Hurley, CNN (CNN) — Residents in a small South Carolina town are finding themselves in the middle of a real-life game of Jumanji after 43 monkeys escaped Wednesday from a research facility. The rhesus macaque primates are all still on the loose as of Friday night after escaping from the Alpha Genesis Primate

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Two Jewish students at DePaul University in Chicago who were “visibly showing their support for Israel” were targeted Wednesday by masked attackers, according to a statement from the university’s president. The students, two men in their 20s, were assaulted by unknown assailants who struck one victim in the face

VENTURA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT, CONNOR NELSON, CHRISTINA NOREN, CNN By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — Powerful winds that fueled fast-moving wildfires across Southern California this week are expected to pick up momentum on Thursday –– worsening conditions for firefighters who are already battling limited visibility to save lives. The National Weather Service issued a Red

By Ray Sanchez and Matthew J. Friedman, CNN (CNN) — The unseating of progressive Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón in a closely watched election has added an eleventh-hour pall of uncertainty in the move to have Erik and Lyle Menendez resentenced nearly 30 years after their convictions for murdering their parents. Nathan Hochman,

By Jordan D. Brown, CNN (CNN) — November 11, 2009, was an ordinary day for two construction workers on a highway near the historic Hoover Dam on the border of Nevada and Arizona. That is, until something out of the ordinary caught their attention: a human bone. After noticing the first bone, the workers continued

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Jason Callahan spends much of his days at the bedsides of people nearing the end of life. A chaplain in the palliative care unit of a hospital cancer center, Callahan supports patients and their loved ones as they confront some of life’s most challenging crises: How will I cope

KABC, CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — As Democrats grapple with election night losses, Trump administration officials are ramping up preparations to return to the White House in January. Trump’s team, however, has actively skipped a series of key deadlines during the initial planning process which could complicate matters between now and his inauguration.

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — As Democrats grapple with election night losses, Trump administration officials are ramping up preparations to return to the White House in January. Trump’s team, however, has actively skipped a series of key deadlines during the initial planning process which could complicate matters between now and his inauguration. Here’s

By Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Nathan Hochman, who defeated incumbent George Gascón in Tuesday’s election to become the next Los Angeles County district attorney, told CNN he could ask to delay a hearing to have Erik and Lyle Menendez resentenced nearly 30 years after their convictions for murdering their parents. “Before

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — No criminal charges will be filed over the death of a 12-year-old boy who suffocated at a North Carolina wilderness camp after staff mandated he stay overnight in a fully enclosed sleeping sack, the local district attorney announced on Wednesday. The 12-year-old suffocated during his first night at the

By Jillian Sykes and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — At least three people drowned in Missouri, including two poll workers, from flooding caused by heavy rains that hit southern and eastern parts of the state and forced numerous road closures Monday and Tuesday, authorities said. The flooding resulted from a powerful cold front that brought

By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — Five people, including a child, were killed when a small plane crashed through a fence and hit a car while aborting takeoff at an Arizona airport Tuesday afternoon, officials said. The Honda HA-420 jet crashed around 4:40 p.m. at Falcon Field Airport in Mesa, a city about 25 miles

By Chris Boyette and Ryan Young, CNN (CNN) — Several non-credible bomb threats that briefly disrupted voting at twelve Georgia polling places originated from Russia, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told reporters Tuesday. “We’ve heard some threats that were of Russian origin. I don’t know how to describe that that’s viable – we don’t

By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — A Tennessee man “dedicated to white supremacist ideology” faces federal charges in an alleged plot to blow up a Nashville energy facility, an attack that if successful could have left thousands without power three days before the US presidential election, the US Justice Department said Monday. Skyler Philippi, 24,

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Melonie White was a young mother of a baby boy, a stylish lover of fashion and on an inspired search for a new career when her body was found strangled and lifeless. White was 27 years old when hikers found her body near Lake Mead National Recreation Area, around